2024 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Minny Lee We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her essay entitled “Korean Buddhist Temple Food:…
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Winners of SAFN’s Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
Review: Communicating Food in Korea
Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, (eds). Communicating Food in Korea. Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland. 2021. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781793642271. Richard Zimmer (Sonom…
Michael Prentice on his book, Supercorporate
Interview by Katherine Chen https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31761 Katherine Chen: Your book Supercorporate, an ethnography of a multi-conglomerate steel company that you call Sangdo, ar…
Umkämpfte Erinnerung. Die „Trostfrauen“-Statue in Berlin und der Umgang mit sexueller Kriegsgewalt
Die Aufstellung einer Bronze zur Erinnerung an die Opfer sexueller Gewaltverbrechen durch die japanische Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg sorgt für diplomatische Spannungen zwischen Berlin und Tokio. Aber e…
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues usually predict upcoming food trends. USA Today, for…
Reivew: Re-Orienting Cuisine
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University Kwang Ok …
Mukbang is Changing Digital Communications
How a global internet phenomenon is foreshadowing the effects of virtual reality and changing the way strangers connect online. Sitting in a home office filled with stuffed…
Suk-Young Kim on her new book, K-Pop Live
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29375 Interview by Chuyun Oh Chuyun Oh: What were some of the questions you want to explore when you first decided to write a book on K-pop, and…
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
Shake Shack Burger Fever in Korea
Sangyoub Park Washburn University The popular American burger chain Shake Shack just opened its first Korean store on July 22, in the Gangnam District of Seoul, which is…
Out With The Old: Gentrifying Seoul’s Noryangjin Fish Market
By Markus Bell and Jieun Kim In 1998 an article in Seoul’s Kyeonghyang newspaper described a visit to Seoul’s Noryanggin Fish Market as follows: “Arriving in the…
Curry’s Great Transnational Journey from India to North Korea
Guest contributor: Markus Bell, Australian National University I hadn’t been in Japan more than a few weeks before I was hooked on Japanese karē raisu (curryrice/カレーライス). It was…